Love and Language Mixing
I have read that the great linguist Noam Chomsky met his wife in Hebrew class, and she married him because
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All kinds of writing
Thoughts on Mudskipping
Since I started living in places in the sub-tropics (Okinawa) and tropics (Philippines), I have always enjoyed observing and photographing
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Wrecks as Marine Life Magnets
Shipwrecks act as artificial reefs, as homes for a large number of fishes and invertebrates. Specifically scorpionfishes, cardinalfishes, hatchetfishes and
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Self Conscious Cleaner Wrasses
Cleaner Wrasses, Mirrors, and Mirror Neurons… Recently, Masanori Kohda and colleagues published a clever scientific paper showing that cleaner wrasses,
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The Chocolate Bar Nudibranch
After many years of observing and photographing shell-less marine gastropods (nudibranchs) underwater, I have finally described a species of my
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Fish of the month: T. vagina
This month’s fish of the month is a goby, which lives in marine and brackish waters in the tropics. In
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Do Crocodiles get Drunk by Eating Drunks?
This is a research question which has been lumbering in the back of my mind for quite some time: What
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A Reptilian Family Tragedy
In the lovely apartment I lived in Bolinao, a tragic tragedy of crassly tragic proportion happened. Two geckos fell in
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Petition: Change the name Damselfish to Hooliganfish
The pomacentridae are a family of marine and brackish water fishes which are usually called “damselfishes”. These are interesting fishes,
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Pacificklaus News August 2018
I’m really excited about the progress of a few projects: The Shrimp Goby Page is online, a popular science resource
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